The AI-augmented leader: Architecting your own virtual chief of staff
summary
Six months of iterative prompts produce a set of role agents that manage planning, data, projects, search and summaries and a personal librarian called Penny the planning coach Lila the data analyst Parker the project manager Sylvia and Hunter on Slack — agents create Python notebooks for analyses, pull from Obsidian/markdown local folders and Cursor, monitor Asana and Slack, block calendar focus time and surface missed actions, and shift roughly 50% of calendar time toward enabling teams while cutting admin work.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00AI-augmented leadership intro
- 1:54Leadership time allocation gap
- 3:17Need for AI virtual chief
- 4:18Penny planning coach & Lila analyst
- 6:45Parker project manager & Sylvia Hunter
- 8:31Building your AI team
- 10:37Structured notes & personalization
- 13:46Skills for AI agents
- 16:35Coaching vs doing in AI
- 17:58Human connection in leadership
- 20:22AI augmentation results
- 21:06Call to action
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